LITERARY AUCTIONS.--That there is no lack of enthusiasm among amateurs
for the possession of rare and curious works, is evidenced by the
prices which some books of this class brought at a sale just concluded
by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, being the first sale of importance
this season. Among them may be noticed the following:
ORLOGE (l') DE SAPIENCE, folio, _nouvellement imprimée à Paris_, 1493.
A VERY SPLENDID SPECIMEN OF PRINTING ON VELLUM, _from the celebrated
Press of_ VERARD, _ruled with red lines, bound in red morocco extra,
gilt edges, by Bauzonnet, with a well made pigskin case to contain it_.
Of this singular Ascetical Romance, M. Van Praet states that six
copies are known as being printed on vellum: of these three are in the
National Library at Paris, all of which are more or less adorned with
miniatures, two of them, like the present, having the summary of the
chapters (left blank for the insertion of the miniatures) written in
a contemporary hand on the margins. The Harleian copy, afterwards in
the collections of Count Macarthy and Mr. Hibbert, was adorned with
thirteen miniatures: the present beautiful volume has SIXTEEN, the
additional ones being at the commencement of the chapters, in which the
same subjects are treated in a different manner. THE whole of the fine
miniatures are in the best style of French art. THIS LOT SOLD FOR £45.
Literary and Scientific Obituary.
CHILDREN, John George. Science. Late Secretary R.S.
Halstead, Kent.
GRAEFE, Dr. Christian. Greek and Roman Antiquities. St.
Petersburgh. 11th December.
JACOB, William. F.R.S. Political Economist. 31, Cadogan
Place. 17th December. Aged 89.
LUTTRELL, Henry. Wit and Poet. Brompton Square. 19th
December. Aged 86.
SADLIER, Rev. Dr. Provost, Trinity College, Dublin.
14th December.
STEEL, James. Editor and Proprietor Carlisle Journal.
Carlisle. 16th December. Aged 55.
TURNER, Joseph Mallord William. R.A. 47, Queen Anne
Street (Chelsea?). 19th December. Aged 76.
WARBURTON, Eliot. Historian and Novelist. Lost in the
wreck of the Amazon. 4th January.
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